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This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in.

Jeanette Winterson

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Jeanette Winterson
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: August 27
Author
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Prosaist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Short Story Writer
Writer
Manchester
England
Outside
Break
Looking
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Way
Love

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